CeCiL's Screenings by Guillaume Barborini

CeCiL’s Box celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2025!

Since 2015, Cercle Cité has been supporting local creation and has showcased the work of thirty-four young and emerging artists from the Greater Region in one of its windows on Rue du Curé, visible 24/7.

To mark this anniversary, the Cercle Cité is giving five of these artists carte blanche for a cycle of artist film screenings throughout the year. These screenings, which explore their current research or serve as a source of inspiration for their practice, will be followed by a dialogue with the artists, joined by specialists in their field or enthusiasts of their art.

For this first screening, Guillaume Barborini will present the artist film 32 pierres pour doubler l'équilibre.

32 pierres pour doubler l'équilibre (32 stones to underscore equilibrium)

" I spent a week in the Vallonpierre refuge in the Écrins massif in the framework of a 2020 residency programme entitled L'envers des pentes (The underside of the slopes). I went up there with a few paragraphs of Mount Analogue ¹ in mind; with kilos of string in my backpack; with a desire to weave connections among the reliefs, to tie things together. Perhaps to support them.

Approaching the mountain from the point of view of a network of interdependencies, a precarious canvas connecting crests in a state of equilibrium. In which everything could collapse at any moment. In which everything is already crumbling."

Beginning with a cairn and string as a minimal vocabulary, Trente-deux pierres pour doubler l'équilibre (Thirty-two stones to underscore equilibrium) formulates gestures that dialogue with each other. Unpremeditated gestures scattered about the mountain, prompted – almost forced – by those steep spaces. Gestures rolling down the slopes, precipitated by a gentle urgency of a few days.

So it all begins with a cairn. A cairn that is subverted, shifted, reinvented from place to place to become, over and above its function as a landmark, an echo chamber in which multiple relationships with the mountains resound and intertwine.

Arising from this high-altitude agitation, a video and a text follow a thread.

Thursday 10 April 2025, the former will be projected while the second is read.

The screening will be followed by a discussion with Marie-Anne Lorgé (cultural journalist and art critic).

Free entrance, registration required

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1. René Daumal, Le Mont Analogue (Mount Analogue), Gallimard, 1952.